RFT: rebase--helper

RFT: rebase--helper

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi all,

some of you are already aware that I was working on speeding up the
interactive rebase by slowly moving the performance-critical parts into a
builtin helper (unfortunately, we missed the boat long time ago when it
would still have been feasible to convert the entire rebase family into
builtins and to reasonably hope for a bug-free conversion).

Well, now I am at a point where I am reasonably certain that I have
something worth testing, and I would like to solicit help by others now.
So if you know how to write good bug reports and are not worried about
spending a bit of time to help move this project forward, I would be
really glad if you gave it a whirl with your typical rebase -i scenarios.

Here is an installer of Git for Windows with the rebase-helper:

	https://github.com/dscho/git/releases/tag/rebase-helper-v0

For non-Windows users, please pick up my 'interactive-rebase' branch from
https://github.com/dscho/git/ (and no, this topic branch is not in its
final shape, and I will break it down into more digestable patch series
before submitting)

Known issues:

- exec commands do not report the command about to be run

- when pick'ing an already-applied patch, the last line of the error
  message does not quote the commit we tried to pick

- it chokes on lines in the todo script with leading white-space

(The last problem is already solved in my topic branch.)

And finally a note for everybody who got this far: expect `git rebase -i`
to be *slower* with this version, not faster. The reason is that it will
run the rebase *twice*, once with the old shell script version, and then
using the rebase--helper, and then it cross-validates the results. That
also means that you need to resolve merge conflicts twice, reword twice,
and make sure that any "exec" commands are safe to be run twice (oh, and
GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE=concatenate will also wreak havoc, of course).

Thank y'all in advance,
Johannes